Comments on: Johnny Jolly granted release after six months of six-year sentence http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Sun, 19 May 2013 13:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: toolkien http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1787657 Wed, 16 May 2012 23:31:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1787657 Sounds good on the surface. “Drug addicts only hurt themselves”. You know, except the ones that lie, steal, and hurt others to get the money to buy their drugs, or just plain old assault somebody to steal drugs from them. Yep, prison is no place for somebody with “just” a drug addiction. I’m glad to see everybody here will welcome him into their neighborhood. Poor fella.

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Of course they lie, cheat, and steal to pay the INFLATED prices from the black market. And those who actually do resort to such tactics are a SUBSET of the whole, and we do have the laws in place when they actually do harm life and property of others. We could wait until they actually commit a CRIME instead of a VICE that MIGHT lead one to a criminal activity.

]]> By: ronin36 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1786915 Wed, 16 May 2012 16:15:39 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1786915 I hope he truly was “shocked” into turning his life around. I hope this wasn’t just a ploy, and he (and his lawyer) said the right things.

He’ll never play in the NFL again. Even if he goes straight, he’ll have to do so for 2 or 3 years before the NFL will consider re-instating him. By that time, he’ll be too old for any team to want to take a chance on him.

]]> By: joetoronto http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1786460 Wed, 16 May 2012 08:48:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1786460 Phone call for Johnny Jolly on line one, it’s Mike Brown calling.

He wants to know if you’ll play for the league minimum.

]]> By: thermalito http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1786420 Wed, 16 May 2012 06:37:25 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1786420 A 6 year prison sentence for codeine?? My god. The United Police State of America reminds me more of the former Soviet Union everyday.

]]> By: raylangivens2 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1786340 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:19:17 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1786340 It’s amazing he got six years in jail for possessing something that’s legal in a ton of countries, you can buy the stuff in Canada without a prescription. He clearly wasn’t some kind of threat that society needed to be protected from, that’s what prisons are supposed to be for.

]]> By: warrenpeacephotography http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1786297 Wed, 16 May 2012 03:40:01 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1786297 Oh no, he was taking pills to feel good! As we all know, feeling good is illegal.

We’re sending people to jail for SIX YEARS for taking pain pills? WTF is wrong with this country? That shouldn’t even be a crime, let alone a jailable offense.

Some commenters have mentioned that some drug addicts have been known to commit other crimes. If that’s the case, then they deserve to be punished for those crimes just like anybody else would. But to assume that all drug users commit other crimes is ignorant and wrong. Maybe if drugs were legal like they should be, there would be less incentive to commit crimes to help obtain drugs.

]]> By: purpleguy http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785719 Tue, 15 May 2012 21:33:51 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785719 If he gets help and stays clean, this was a good move. Although I suspect he’s subject to some NFL suspension time (maybe it was last year), I hope he can get in shape, hook up with a team and turn his life around.

]]> By: phillycass http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785578 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:41:16 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785578 Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing your newest Cincinnati Bengal!

]]> By: bozosforall http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785574 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:28 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785574 I guess that he got tired of being a Packee in the (fudge) stir.

]]> By: motorcitym http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785561 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:49 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785561 It’s a good thing we all play by the same rules. It would be nice to know how much a ruling like that would cost to get out of, you know just in case us common folk get ourselves in the same amount of trouble!

]]> By: Match Point Floppy http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785553 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:28:21 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785553 Here’s hoping he turns his life around.

]]> By: abqpacker http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785552 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:28:09 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785552 Good luck Johnny! Sure hope you have the right support system in place to make this work.

]]> By: TSizzleBallSoHard http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785531 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:23:52 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785531 @kja that because Ray Lewis never did anything jerkoff.

]]> By: nflofficeadmin http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785529 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:22:49 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785529 Get well soon John.

]]> By: east96st http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785513 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:16:17 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785513 It amazes me to this day that so few people have figured out that the “war on drugs” has been a complete and utter failure, has helped bankrupt the states and the Nation, has eroded our civil liberties and has destabilized most of Central and South America. Sell it, tax it, and use the proceeds to build treatment centers and get people off it. Would be the single greatest economic stimulus in US history and would be the one truly effective tool we ever tried in the “war on poverty”.

]]> By: conormacleod http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785512 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:16:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785512 Sounds good on the surface. “Drug addicts only hurt themselves”. You know, except the ones that lie, steal, and hurt others to get the money to buy their drugs, or just plain old assault somebody to steal drugs from them. Yep, prison is no place for somebody with “just” a drug addiction. I’m glad to see everybody here will welcome him into their neighborhood. Poor fella.

]]> By: riderspantherssk http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785510 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:14:13 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785510 6 years for possession of codeine? No wonder the Federal government is broke. Jailing addicts is just horrible policy, no matter how mean spirited you are.

]]> By: stavreafavre http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785507 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:13:41 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785507 The big guy clears one hurdle that I didn’t think he would. I hope he clears a few more and really does strighten out his life.

]]> By: jhorton83 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785501 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:11:04 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785501 He’s a non-violent offender. Don’t see the problem letting him out early. Save the prison space for the repeat violent criminals.

]]> By: skittlesareyum http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785500 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:10:11 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785500 It’s too bad he’ll never play in the NFL again. The man was a force on the field.

]]> By: tone360 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785496 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:08:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785496 Bears need to sign this dude.

]]> By: schmitty2 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785495 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:08:12 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785495 The judge gave Jolly what is known as “shock probation,” which is granted when an offender convinces a judge that he was shocked into turning his life around by spending a short period of time in prison. Jolly will remain on probation for 10 years and will have to serve 200 hours of community service.

Based on that pic, I have a pretty good idea of what “Shocked” him in prison

]]> By: jbaxt http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785490 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:05:32 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785490 I suppose it’s one of those releases where only time will tell. Still he was carrying a drug around. Would a judge be so lenient if he was on heroin? Siizzurp shouldn’t be any different. And where did he get the prescriptions for it?

]]> By: bigwalt2990 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785484 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:02:01 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785484 “who has never hurt anyone other than himself, and that he doesn’t belong in prison with dangerous criminals.” i think that accounts for about 90% of drug arrests…

]]> By: gen129 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785479 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:06 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785479 Glad this judge had half a brain and realized that our overcrowded prison system doesn’t need more addicts filling up cells that could be used for kiddie diddlers like Sandusky. Chances are their drug of choice (or a jailhouse blend, anyway) is readily available and the problem would just continue when they got out. Having pulled many friends out of the abyss that is hard drug addiction, I can tell you that treatment is what an addict needs, not jail time. Hope he can stay on the straight and narrow and turn his life around.

]]> By: osrude http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785478 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:59:53 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785478 Used to have faith he was going to be good. He let his addiction be his downfall. Wonder whether he’ll ever play another snap?

]]> By: savocabol1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785474 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:57:46 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785474 The justice system at its finest today!

]]> By: sndmn331 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785471 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:57:10 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785471 He always seemed like a good guy. Hoping he can get it together and get his life back on track.

]]> By: MKSKNK http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785467 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:55:50 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785467 I applaud this decision. Best of luck to this guy regardless of whether or not he ever makes it back into the NFL.

]]> By: jakek2 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/15/johnny-jolly-granted-release-after-six-months-of-six-year-sentence/#comment-1785466 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:55:37 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=743438#comment-1785466 Texas – a state that executes the wrong prisoners one day and lops off 5 1/2 years from a 6 yr sentence the next.

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